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Following a major cognitive event like a stroke, it’s key that patients do limb exercises that replicate daily tasks in order to regain physical competence

The EHR vendor nabbed the patient engagement company for $60 million, according to an SEC filing.

A new kind of healthcare hacker has been invading networks for years. Can it be stopped?

It’s a big number, and a big asterisk, but OCR-reported breaches have easily crossed the 1 million mark for 2018.

Why data could make the difference in providing effective, value-driven care in sub-Saharan Africa.

"This would be a different conversation had this VA Secretary been in place at the end of the first quarter," the company's president said.

Can this data-driven chip transform addiction recovery?

At the ARVO meeting in Hawaii, Australian researchers presented impressive findings from a massive dataset.

A researcher who got nearly $1 million to study mHealth for substance abuse explains why it's essential to deploy the apps in primary care.

Some healthcare organizations leverage data to combat addiction, but the practice must expand, argues Surescripts.

Robin AI has rebranded itself as Suki, and big names are getting behind its vision for a physician voice assistant.

“There has to be a radical transformation in value delivered,” Health 2047's CEO said.

Researchers found that the data they generate correlated closely with cancer-related quality of life scores.

Genomics has attracted heavy investment in recent years. Will it ever end?

The telehealth giant says its new acquisition will help it greatly expand offerings across the care continuum.

Learning to handle issues around an aging populace and a reduced health care workforce.

The cable and media giant will launch a pilot project with Independence Health to bring personalized health content and guidance to patients.

How the device, created with a “hacker mentality,” analyzes resistance to vaccine-preventable conditions like measles.

SOPHiA Genetics, a Swiss health-tech company, is celebrating a diagnostics milestone and a $1.4 billion windfall for AI overseas.

The funding will support the study of ST-400 as a cell therapy candidate for people with transfusion-dependent beta-thalassemia.

Amazon, Google, Apple, and other tech giants are trying to shake up healthcare. This week on Data Book, the story of Amazon and the future of medicine.

On a number of patient safety and quality metrics, the agency's health centers outperformed commercial, Medicare, and Medicaid HMOs.

Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, MD, also said his agency will reveal how it plans to review medical devices with more than 1 function.

Algorithms and bots are already in hospitals—and they’re doing more than you think.

The agency's former Chief Information Officer, who resigned last week, doesn't think the VA's leadership turnover will jeopardize its Cerner plans.

A cybersecurity expert describes how to close the longstanding holes that enabled the cyberattacks.

The apps have a greater effect when paired with clinician intervention, but the authors of a new study say that kind of defeats the purpose.

In addition to visual acuity tests, the pharma maker's new app also asks participants to complete surveys and authorize use of their iPhone's step-counting function.

One of the experts who first discovered the hacker group says the attacks look like corporate espionage, not cyber warfare.